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Military History
Interviews with scholars of military history about their new books.
October 8, 2026
A Pacific Power
Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thr…
October 2, 2026
Into the Reich
Enriched by extraordinary first-hand accounts, Prit Buttar's Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 (Osprey Publishing, 2025) is a…
October 1, 2026
Assassins and Secret Listeners
Throughout Britain, all day, every day and in the dead of night, the secret listeners went about their solitary work. Hands on headphones, these men a…
September 30, 2026
Operation Sparrow
Historians have always known that the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day in June 1944 depended on deceiving the Germans about where t…
September 26, 2026
Weaponizing Civilian Protection
Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing C…
September 22, 2026
The Last Invasion of England
In popular accounts of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the autocratic Catholic King James II was ousted by his subjects and replaced by his Protestan…
September 22, 2026
WWII in East Timor
WWII in East Timor: An Australian Army Site and Travel Guide (2/2 Commando Association of Australia, 2024) is an overdue addition to the history of a …
September 20, 2026
Strategies for Approval
When powerful states go to war, why do they bother asking permission? In Strategies for Approval: Building Support for Military Intervention at the UN…
September 19, 2026
Writing Empire and Self
China’s early medieval period, from the fifth through the early seventh century, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties through the unified Sui, was…
September 11, 2026
Operation Condor
In Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent (Storia, 2025), Francesca Lessa uncovers the shadowy machinery behind one of the most chilli…
September 11, 2026
They Shall Not See The Dawn
May 1945. The Reich is in ruins. Hitler is dead. Yet for the US Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps, the real war has just begun. They Shall Not See t…
September 11, 2026
Chasing Bandits
While the war on terror has been America's largest and most publicized attempt to root out foreign enemies this century, the quest to identify and des…
September 6, 2026
China's Date Debate
China’s Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II (U Michigan Press, 2026) by Dr. Emily Matson is an in-depth investigation of the Chi…
September 4, 2026
Truth Commissions and International Law
Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority (Cambridge University Press, 2026) examines how truth commissions con…
September 3, 2026
178 Done in a Day with the Vietnam War (JP)
Elisa Tamarkin, an English prof of high repute (Anglophilia and Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance) at UC Berkeley, joins RT…
September 2, 2026
Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses
John Ross speaks with Scott Forbes Crawford about his book The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC–89 AD (Pen & Sword Military, 2024) For more than two centuries,…
September 1, 2026
In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge
As a child, Lim Muy Lang grew up in a prosperous Sino-Khmer family in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. When the Khme…
August 30, 2026
Why Nations Still Fight
Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow offe…
August 29, 2026
'PS: Burn after Reading'
After Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected in 1945, Canada was shocked by the revelation that its own citizens were engaged in espionage for…
August 25, 2026
Occupying the Everyday
Our recent conversation about Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford UP, 2026), with author Niharik…